Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House

Alan Falconer had a long and varied surgical career in the Royal Navy, practising initially as a general surgeon before training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. After he left the Navy, he became a school doctor at Sedbergh School in Cumbria. He was born in Darlington on 2 June 1921, the eldest

Francis Joseph Hayden was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. His life was shaped by the Edwardian period of the twentieth century, his Catholicism, his medicine and his family. He was born 10 years before the Russian revolution and died 15 years after the Berlin W

Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harro

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Ki

Ariyaman Mahanama Mendis was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sri Lanka from 1958 to 1974, when he immigrated to Western Australia. He accepted the position of senior medical officer to the vast and remote Kimberley region, based at Derby Regional Hospital, on the far north coast of We

Catherine Hamlin, Australia’s most renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist, co-founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia with her husband Reginald Hamlin, a healthcare network treating women who suffer from the debilitating effects of obstetric fistula – a horrific childbirth injury. To say Catherine was a

Nigel Gardner was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Exeter. He was born in Aldridge, Staffordshire on 16 February 1933, to Hedley and Mathilde Gardner. After leaving school, Nigel studied medicine at Birmingham University and St Thomas' Hospital, London, qualifying in 1956. After pos

Michael Arthur Pugh was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital, London and the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Manchester on 6 October 1929, the son of Robert Arthur Pugh, a journalist, and Norah Margaret Pugh née Rees, a market research executive. The family

Michael Kingsley Dunstan ('Mike') was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. He was born on 13 October 1933 in Chiswick, west London. His father, Chester, an Australian, was a general practitioner who had trained at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, wh

Yusuf Abrahams was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Ealing Hospital, London. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a Malay family, at a time when racial segregation was in force; Apartheid followed in 1948. His father, Hanief Abrahams, was a tailor; his mother was Gabiba Abraham

Nur Ahmad Khan Seyal was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and a former principal of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He was born on 16 July 1920 and received his early education in his home town of Jhang (Punjab). In 1936 he went to study medicine at Glancy Medical College, Amri